http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |• Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize had led to tsunami of reaction, and lot of colorful and well-deserved ridicule. In keeping with the spirit of the latter, what do Barack Obama's Nobel prize win and the former sitcom "Seinfeld" have in common?

They're both about nothing.

• Speaking of nothing, Mr. Obama's strategy for Afghanistan is exactly that, so far  and nowhere is his lack of experience and his political track record more damning. The man who voted "present" over a hundred times as an Illinois state Senator is being forced by events on the ground to do the one thing he finds most distasteful: lead. No matter which decision the president makes regarding troop levels, some part of his constituency is going to be very angry  which is precisely why he is dithering, even as our troops are bearing the brunt of his indecisiveness.

Incredibly, this politically motivated dithering is being portrayed as "deep thinking" by his political and media sycophants. Here's how deep the thinking needs to be: either go all out to win, or get out and live with the consequences  no matter how unpleasant.

• The BBC has fallen off the global warming bandwagon. Apparently someone there noticed that the earth hasn't warmed since 1998, and there are even predictions that we may be entering a cooling period that will last for twenty years or more.

Will the BBC's leftist soulmates now refer to them, as they have all skeptics, as "deniers akin to those who denied the Holocaust?" Has the BBC permanently removed itself from consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize previously bestowed on climatology "expert" Al Gore?

• Fox News personality Glenn Beck has a new book out entitled "Arguing With Idiots." A couple of thoughts: 1. if one truly needs instructions on how to argue with an idiot, what does that make the instructee? 2. Idiots aren't called idiots for nothing. Making a cogent argument based on facts and expecting the same in return is a fool's errand. Why bother?

There is a far better way to begin any debate: before starting in on anything, I ask someone if they vote. If the answer is "no," the debate is over. I refuse to waste my time with people who like to complain, but refuse to participate.

• According to 80% of the economists responding to a National Association of Business Economics survey, the recession is over, but the nation still faces a "long slow recovery." Despite this ostensibly good news, 92% the NABE respondents said it would take until 2012 to recover all of the jobs lost, and that the unemployment rate would remain as high as 9.5% through 2010.

Am I the only one who thinks that a "jobless recovery" is no recovery at all?

• Speaking of economics, the dollar is in free fall. According to Bloomberg.com the greenback has lost "10.3% on a trade-weighted basis the past six months, the biggest drop since 1991." Fabrizio Fiorini, a money manager who helps oversee $12 billion at Aletti Gestielle SGR SpA in Milan: "The diversification out of the dollar will accelerate. People are buying the euro not because they want that currency, but because they want to get rid of the dollar. In the long run, the U.S. will not be the same powerful country that it once was.”

In a related shocker, it was announced that Barack Obama did not win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

• North Korea test-fired some more short range missiles on Monday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "Our goals remain the same. We intend to work toward a nuclear-free Korean peninsula."

As the Nobel committee made plain last Friday, intentions are every bit as good as results. We can all rest easier now.

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